Linux Today archives go all the way back to the very beginning in 1998. Here are a few choice stories to share, from the funniest to the most expensive LT story ever to the most popular story, which also gives a prescient peek into Apple's turn towards extreme control-freakdom.
<b>Montana Linux:</b> "I recorded them with a Samsung SC-MX20 which is a very inexpensive / budget rig. The sound quality is fair to good considering the camera does not have the ability to use an external mic. The video quality is fair to good considering that most of the rooms had the lights turned off for viewing projected presentation slides."
<b>Datamation:</b> "Mozilla is out this week with Firefox 3.5.9 and 3.0.19 updates, fixing multiple security vulnerabilities in the open source Web browser's two branches, while announcing that the older of the two branches is being phased out."
<b>Geekride:</b> "DenyHosts is a tool i use to secure my SSH server from these type of people. Written in python, this tool serves as a very active security guard and helps me to keep my system safe from lots of prying eyes."
From stolen devices and phishing attacks, to buggy apps and human blunders, 2009 was a banner year for data breaches. Here are 10 from which we can learn a lot.
<b>MakeTechEasier:</b> "The talk of the town is that the next version of Kubuntu (10.10, codenamed Maverick Meerkat) will have a new default browser, replacing Konqueror, the longtime KDE favorite."
<b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "The forthcoming version of Ubuntu Linux, Lucid Lynx, has just gone beta and it's going to be the most important Ubuntu release in years. "
No matter how the war over the Ubuntu buttons ends, it highlights the tension between democracy and meritocracy within Ubuntu and the greater FOSS community.
<b>Phoronix:</b> "Our friends over at Unigine Corp love to push the bounds of graphics realism in their Unigine Engine, which continues to be one of the most advanced commercial game engines, and right now is certainly the most advanced game engine for Linux."
I have a scheduled task on my server which runs a PHP script every minute. In the 'Run' part of the scheduled task I have the following:
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "http://www.example.co.uk/script.php"
So when it runs it opens Internet Explorer and browses to that URL.
Is it possible to get it to close Internet Explorer after running the script?
Social networking giant rolls out a login notification service alerting users to activity on their accounts and begins asking verification questions when users log in from unfamiliar devices.